Now, he regularly seeks the advice of fortune-tellers, wears lucky amulets, and has pictures of tarot cards as wallpaper on his phone.
Like Mr Dhidhaj, many in Thailand's anxiety-gripped young demographic have started to embrace fortune-telling and other forms of divination. An estimated 78 per cent of the Thai population believes in the supernatural according to a 2021 study by Mahidol University's College of Management . The app offers daily livestreams by some of its 7,000 fortune-tellers, during which users can spend 10 to 100 baht for quick insights. It also offers private one-on-one card reading sessions at higher rates.
"It's mental first-aid," said Dr Jomkhwan."But it could jeopardise your ability to make decisions for yourself in the long term."Mobile phone wallpaper maker Mootae World has made tens of thousands of images — each with different tarot cards and symbols — for clients' phone screens. Thai project Crypto Amulets has sold about 3,000 such NFTs since launching in 2021, each for about 2,000 baht on the Ethereum and Solana blockchains.
Source: Education Headlines (educationheadlines.net)